The Limp Cobra
“perché le code sono serpenti selvaggi da addomesticare”
Ci limitiamo in questo caso a segnalare, copiare e incollare l’articolo di Marc Fauvet in collaborazione con Grunde Lovoll “Bendy contro Stiffy”, uno studio incentrato sull’azione e reazione di varie tipologie di canne di pesca soggette a determinate e specifiche sollecitazioni. Le conclusioni nel testo che segue. Una sola sottolineatura, in chiusura: l’autore ringrazia il Cielo perché alcune persone, che cita, non vivono in una scatola e riescono a riconoscere come spesso le cose semplici siano anche le migliori e, in questo caso, le più performanti. Condividiamo appieno. Di seguito il link all’articolo originale, completo di video:
http://thelimpcobra.com/2012/11/20/bendy-vs-stiffy-a-study-of-fly-rod-action-and-casting-mechanics/
Vanni Marchioni
Bendy vs Stiffy – a study of fly rod action and casting mechanics
“My experience is that for a given line length (and weight) the caster uses almost the same stroke regardless of the action of the rod. Different rods certainly “feel different” but there is little or no “adjustment to or matching of the stroke ”going on”.
How many times have we heard or read that we need to change the casting stroke depending on a rod’s action? The typical explanation given is, for a slower rod we’ll use a slower stroke and a faster stroke with a faster rod. Well, this happens to be incorrect and is a classic example so common in the fly casting world where‘what we think we do and what actually happens’ don’t meet up.As we’ll see below, Lasse Karlsson has taped two very different rods together to cast them at the same time with two identical lines of the same weight rating. Simultaneous loop formation, loop shape and loop speed are very-very similar with both rods. Iif it weren’t for the excessive counter-flex/rebound (and it’s resultant waves of the rod leg of the fly line) produced from the slower rod’s heavier tip it would be extremely difficult to determine which line was cast from which rod.
there is no adjustment of the casting stroke to achieve these equal results.For the tech geeks, here’s the equipment info from the following video and one of them is that a lot of ‘experts’, many rod designers and people in the tackle industry just blindly repeat what they’ve heard without giving it any thought and don’t seem to try these things out on their own, specially when they’re so simple to observe. Thank goodness for people like Lasse, Aitor, Grunde, Paul and a host of others who don’t live in a box.